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level questions: Level 1

Question	Answer
Words or Phrases used to describe qualities that can't be recognized by our five senses	Abstract Diction
A story, poem, or picture that is used to reveal a hidden message ; moral of a story	Allegory
The repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of each word in a line	Alliteration
An indirect or direct reference to a person, place, or thing of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.	Allusion
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a clause	Anaphora
Two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a balancing effect	Antithesis
The representation of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	Anthropomorphism
A character, an action, or a situation that represents universal patterns of human nature; "universal symbol"	Archetype
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	Assonance
A harsh discordance of sounds; a meaningless mixture of sounds	Cacophony
The rising and falling rhythm; a recurrent rhythmical series	Cadence
A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line	Caesura
The process in which the writer reveals the personality of a character	Characterization
The use of informal or everyday language	Colloquial
A series of remarks, explanatory notes, or detailed analysis of a passage of text	Commentary
The use of words for their literal meaning/often refers to things that appeal to the senses	Concrete Diction
The attitudes, feelings, and emotions aroused by a word	Connotation
A pair of successive lines of metre in poetry	Couplet
The dictionary definition of a word	Denotation
The choice of words and how the author intends to express them	Diction
A person's inherent qualities of mind and character	Disposition
A phrase or figure of speech that could have two meanings/understood in two different ways	Double Entendre
Occure when the audience knows something that the characters don't	Dramatic Irony
When a phrase, cluase, or a sentence in a line of poetry doesn't finish at the line break, but continues over into the next line	Enjambment
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	Epic
Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds	Euphony
A metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire poem	Extended Metaphor
Imagery related to the sense of taste	Gustatory
The ability to form mental images of things or events	Imagery
The reversal of the order of words or clauses	Inversion
The third person narrator who genral reports only what one character observes and who only reports the thoughts of that one character	Limited Omniscient Narrator
Tools that a writer uses to enhance meaning or illustrate an idea effectively	Literary Elements
A genre of literature that depicts the real world as having an undercurrent of magic or fantasy	Magical Realism
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity	Metaphor
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling	Mood
A story within a story	Narrative Frame
Witness to a story; can only tell you what can be seen or heard	Objective Narrator
All knowing; infinitely wise	Omniscient
The same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance	Parallel Structure
A sequence of events that make up a story	Plot
Who is telling or narrating a story; how the writer wants to convey the experience to the reader	Point of View
A stanza of four lines	Quatrain
A term used to describe a person's knowledge and experiences about a topic or idea	Schema
The location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place	Setting
Informal language; words that aren't typically part of what is accepted as correct use of language	Slang
A lenghty speech given to oneself when alone	Soliloquy
A continuous flow of ideas and feelings that express an individual's conscious experience	Stream of Consciousness
The idea of using a symbol to represent a meaning, idea, or quality	Symbolism
A figure of speech in which you use a part of something to stand for the whole thing	Synecdoche
The arrangement of words to form a sentence	Syntax
The main idea of underlying meaning of a literary work	Theme
A statement that effectively identifies and expresses the foucs of your writing	Thesis Statement
Form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all the action of their work using pronouns such as "he," "she," and "they"	Third-Person
The way the author expresses his/her attitude through his/her writing	Tone